Chapter 196 Chai Jiang said: He, you can't come (3/3 ask for a monthly ticket)
Compared with the humid and cold Yangcheng, Sanyin City, which is located at a lower latitude, is much more comfortable. Even in January, the coldest month of the year, which is now, the average temperature is above 21 degrees!
Here, even in winter, thin short-sleeved clothes are enough for walking and playing outdoors!
Therefore, when several members of the directing team of "The Voice of Chinese" flew from the snowy Magic City to the sunny Sanyin City, they kept taking off their clothes. As a result, they finally arrived at the island where Chai Jiang's home is located.
When I got there, I was wearing only a long-sleeved shirt and was sweating all over. It was so hot!
"The weather in Sanyin is like this. It's not cold in winter, so it's very friendly to old people like us."
Chai Jiang shook hands with Jin Ke, the chief director of "The Voice", and welcomed them in with a smile.
Although they have not had much interaction in the past few years, in the first two seasons, Chai Jiang also served as the celebrity mentor of "The Voice", and he and Jin Ke are relatively good friends.
It's just a pity that the other behind-the-scenes staff of "The Voice of Chinese" have almost been changed. Except for the chief director who is still Jin Ke, the few people around Jin Ke will be introduced later by Jin Ke, who are the publicity director and program coordinator. Anyway,
They are no longer the ones Chai Jiang knew before.
Of course, it doesn't matter, Chai Jiang can understand.
After all, "The Voice of Chinese" is also a commercially operated program. Whether some people are not suitable for use or some talented producers choose to jump out and lead a program themselves, it is very common.
The camp is made of iron, the troops are flowing, not to mention the production team, even the star instructor has been replaced several times.
Jin Ke can hold on to the position of chief director for so many years, so he is truly awesome!
"Teacher Chai has great vision. He bought a mansion here a few years ago. Now it is not easy to buy a house here in Nanhai Island. Let alone a villa built on the island like Teacher Chai!"
Jin Ke exchanged greetings with Chai Jiang with emotion.
"There are advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that real estate in Nanhai Island is not developed as indiscriminately as before. You don't have to worry about the ecological environment being damaged too much. The disadvantage is that the circulation of real estate has become worse. The value of my house cannot rise.
It fell a lot.”
Chai Jiang asked them to sit down on the colorful and bright fabric sofa in the living room on the first floor.
However, although the house has depreciated in value, Chai Jiang doesn't care at all.
Because the house was worth less when he bought it, and it experienced crazy price increases. Even if it depreciates a little now, he still makes a profit.
Of course, a large and carefully decorated villa like Chai Jiang's is full of home atmosphere, so it is obvious that he did not buy the villa for investment.
As long as he stays in his name, what does the temporary depreciation or appreciation have to do with him?
"So Teacher Chai lives in Sanyin now?"
A slightly younger female assistant director interrupted and asked.
"No, I mainly come here to live in Sanyin in the winter. Now that I'm older, the climate in Sanyin is more comfortable. But usually I mostly stay in the capital..."
Chai Jiang laughed.
After chatting for a while, Jin Ke finally got down to business.
He wants to ask Chai Jiang to come back as a mentor!
Of course, even without mentioning it, as the chief director of "The Voice of Chinese", he came to Sanyin to find Chai Jiang, and his purpose was already obvious.
Chai Jiang also knew it very well.
However, he is even more curious. Why does "Voice Chinese" want to invite him back when he has already appeared twice and served as the star mentor of "The Voice" for two seasons?
What conditions do they want to impose on themselves?
After seeing that Chai Jiang's expression didn't change much after hearing what he said, Jin Ke secretly sighed in his heart.
He also knew that Chai Jiang would react like this. Even if he came to invite him, he would probably be rejected.
But Jinke had no choice.
"The Voice" has reached a big bottleneck in recent years, and in the ninth season of "The Voice" which ended just a few months ago, the show's ratings almost hit rock bottom.
Although no one can shake Jin Ke's status for the time being, "The Voice of Chinese" is no longer popular and exciting. There are still high calls for it to be discontinued. Jin Ke and his team are also under tremendous pressure for this.
Jinke's hair, which had been restless for a long time, had turned a lot whiter. If he hadn't paid more attention and dyed it all black, he might have been like Chai Jiang and had to wear a hat when going out.
"Teacher Chai, we want to do a 10th anniversary special in the tenth season of "The Voice" this year. We plan to invite four instructors from the first season, including you, back to serve as the stars of this season.
tutor."
Chai Jiang was noncommittal about the first paragraph of Jin Ke’s remarks.
Because this argument is unattractive, Jinke and the others just want to play the memory card.
But the memory card is not easy to play. Among the instructors are two instructors who have appeared countless times over the years, and the audience is tired of watching it.
"At the same time, we will invite students who participated in the first season who have not officially debuted but still insist on singing and can sing well to join, so that they can bravely step on the stage again and join the blind audition team."
This is a little bit more interesting.
In the first season of "The Voice of Chinese", there were still many students with excellent voices and distinctive characteristics, and the first season of "The Voice of Chinese" was at its peak. I believe that many people who like this show will miss that time very much.
The real "Good Chinese Voice"!
However, is it fair for them to call them back after ten years and suffer the pain of being blindly selected and eliminated again?
Jin Ke considered this planning project from the perspective of the program, and he definitely wouldn't care about the feelings of the eliminated students.
But Chai Jiang thought a little more.
He feels that there are advantages and disadvantages to this approach.
The advantage is that students who are truly capable, or who have gained strength after ten years of experience and accumulation, may perform better and get better opportunities than before.
But there are too few such players. Why would you wait until ten years to discover a capable player?
There are more senior students who are weaker but still have a passion for music.
Passion cannot replace talent. They failed to come out ten years ago, and you can't expect them to perform amazingly ten years later.
The disadvantage is that for these veteran students, if they don't sing well, they will bear more pressure from public opinion, and cynicism is inevitable!
What's even more frightening is that the program team will take the opportunity to hype it up for the sake of ratings and amplify the contradiction.
Ten years of dreams have been met with an even greater blow...
"Jin Ke, the biggest problem in "The Voice" now is not how to create a bigger topic, but the quality of the contestants and innovation in the competition system."
Chai Jiang is also an old singer who is a leading figure in the music industry. What scenes have you seen?
He certainly won't get excited just because of Jinke's slogan "Recreate the classics and start over."
What's more, Jin Ke didn't offer him very attractive conditions like he did in the first season.
Therefore, Chai Jiang only made suggestions and did not express any intention.
You can talk, but you need to be sincere enough.
The bitterness in Jin Ke's heart became even stronger.
He hasn't discussed the money issue yet, but he really can't offer any good terms.
Ratings have declined for two consecutive years. Yes, the brand name of "The Voice" is not as loud as before, and even the biggest naming rights are no longer as popular as they were in previous years.
The naming fees and advertising fees that have shrunk so much, and a lot of it has been given to relevant stakeholders, cannot afford him to pay Chai Jiang even the same standard mentor appearance fee as in the first season.
This situation has already begun to take shape in the past two years!
What kind of celebrity instructors have been invited to "The Voice of Chinese" in the past two years?
Not to mention their fame and popularity, just in terms of musical literacy, they are far behind those earlier celebrity mentors who were truly the queens and kings of the music industry.
Maybe it's okay to give them time to settle down, but they've only lived for about ten years, and now they can't wait to be mentors, which is still a little short of the mark.
Besides being able to talk about cross talk on the instructor's chair and gain the limelight, how much progress and changes can they bring to the students? How exciting can the stage of cooperation be?
If these are not possible, then what is the meaning of the word "mentor"?
The audience only focused on watching and praising the instructor, and the students' light was completely blocked. This kind of "Chinese Voice" is already completely different from their original intention in the first season.
Chai Jiang could see that "The Voice of Chinese" had such shortcomings in the past two years, but he didn't want to offend his colleagues, so he didn't say it out.
Of course, it is impossible that Jin Ke is unaware of such problems. He also wants to let the audience regain the feeling of watching "The Voice of Chinese" by regaining his former mentor.
It's just that it's hard to find the same high-quality group of students with amazingly good voices in the past.
It can only be fried rice, so Jin Ke pinned his hopes on this season's program.
Reverse thinking, as long as he can invite qualified mentors like Chai Jiang back, he can get more financial support by playing the emotional card - whether it is sponsorship or funds from the company.
As long as he improves the ratings of this season's show and it becomes more popular, there will be more good students, and he will be able to have the confidence to make bigger changes.
Of course, Jin Ke still has to complain to Chai Jiang.
Children who cry can get candy, but only directors who can make themselves look miserable can be successful.
Jin Ke talked to Chai Jiang about the current situation in the music market. There is a shortage of musical talents and it is difficult to make music. He said it as if without a mentor like Chai Jiang who is passionate about music, music will fall into an abyss of no return...
It has to be said that Jin Ke's complaint still resonated with Chai Jiang.
There are not many pure music variety shows in recent years. The programs with high ratings are no longer singing programs like "The Voice", but all game-type reality shows.
Even the previously popular music variety shows that mainly featured old singers, but now their ratings have dropped sharply.
"But you said there are no good musical talents. I don't agree. Your director team still hasn't dug deeply into some folk musicians. If you can turn your attention to independent musicians, there are actually many new generations.
A very good singer!”
Chai Jiang shook his head.
"Does Teacher Chai have any good recommendations?"
Jin Ke showed joy. He heard from Chai Jiang that there were many relics that had not been unearthed by them?
"Yes, but I'm not sure if you can hire him. If you can hire him, he will definitely be an annual champion-level talent!"
Chai Jiang paused and added:
"In the past ten years, all the champions combined can't compare with his championship talent! A very talented new generation singer-songwriter!"
Chai Jiang was a bit exaggerated, but he was not completely wrong.
In terms of singing skills and voice talent, this person may not be called the best.
But in terms of creative ability, Chai Jiang feels that he is a well-deserved champion.
And combined with his comprehensive creative ability, he is definitely a well-deserved number one!
At least he is number one in Chai Jiang’s mind!
The key is that Chai Jiang feels that with this person's level, he can completely raise the overall level of the "Chinese Voice" students to a higher level, and even break the curse of the previous "Chinese Voice" champions being unable to become popular...
"But he's not very interested in variety shows. I don't think you can invite him to be your student!"
Chai Jiang repeated his point of view again.
"Teacher Chai, please stop showing off. Who is he?"